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  • Phrase Origin: Do Not Want

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    The phrase “Do not want” is one of endless amusement, now spoken often in my department when referring to anything bad or…well…unwanted. The phrase is brilliantly humorous and more so now that I know its accidental origin.

  • Star Wars, Backstroke of the West

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    Engrish. Gotta love it. It seems that there is a copy of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith floating around on DVD that is a recording from the theater when it aired. As luck would have it, it was dubbed to Chinese, then had English subtitles placed across the bottom. The great news? Well, the…

  • Heaven on Earth?

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    I live in an apartment building in Ashland, NH. Its an old building built in the mid-late 1800s and has been converted into 20 apartments…the first floor however, was the home to a small store that people seem to have ranted and raved about. It left the building a little while before I moved in…